Introduction: When the Night Came Alive The moment the sun dipped below the skyline in the 1980s, a different world flickered awake — one drenched in neon glow, pulsing bass lines, and the promise of escape. Nightlife wasn’t just something people went to; it was an entire culture people stepped into. Whether it was the…

Section 1 — Introduction: Life Before Smartphones Imagine a weekday morning in 1986. The apartment hums with the clack of a typewriter or the distant whir of a cassette recorder. The kitchen phone — a corded landline mounted on the wall or sitting in a cradle on a little hall table — is the main…